12 convicted in EPFO fraud case

PTI | July 1, 2015 8:52 am

Twelve persons, including five employees of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), were convicted by a special CBI court here for fraudulently settling 11 PF claims amounting to Rs 44,74,895 by forging documents.

The court also imposed a total fine of Rs 50,70,000 on the accused. The sentence ranging from three years to maximum seven years was awarded by the Special CBI Judge, Manoj Kumar Shrivastava on Tuesday, a CBI release said.

The sentence was awarded recently under sections 120-B, 419, 201, 420, 467, 471 and 477-A of the IPC and section 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.